Chronic serial womanizer Stephane Margelle drops his wife Sophie off at the airport so she can go away for Easter weekend. He immediately picks up beautiful young Julie, who has just had a fight with her married boyfriend. He gets her back to his apartment and is preparing for a sexy weekend, when his wife suddenly returns home. He makes up a bizarre, on-the-spot, spur-of-the-moment story that the gorgeous girl is actually his long-lost daughter. Julie plays along, but this leads to a whole series of increasingly ridiculous lies and comical situations (such as when her real mother shows up).
Acting
Belmondo's sweating desperation is physical comedy gold.
Writing
Lie stacks on lie with clockwork precision.
Director
Georges Lautner
Jean-Paul Belmondo
Stephane Margelle
Sophie Marceau
Julie
Marie Laforêt
Sophie Margelle
Rosy Varte
Marlène Chataigneau, la mère de Julie
Michel Beaune
Rousseau
Marie-Christine Descouard
Melle Fleury
Gérard Hernandez
Le serveur du restaurant indien
Marc Lamole
Le médecin
Maurice Auzel
Le chauffeur de taxi myope
Charly Bertoni
L'interne de l'hôpital
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Belmondo was 52, Marceau was 17. The age gap was controversial even in 1984 France.
This was part of a wave of 'comédie érotique' that died hard when AIDS changed the cultural landscape.
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